Dia VanGunten is a writer and the creator of the Pink Zombie Rose books, a series of graphic novels, illustrated by comic legend Beppi. Watch for the duo’s first book Major Arcana at all major retailers, comic shops & poet haunts.

The collection will be released by Q at the end of 2023

Follow @pinkzombierose for art, excerpts & updates.

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Pink Zombie Rose is the resident serial for the Berlin literary mag, Open Sewers.

Portions of PZR have been published in Fatal Flaw, Funemployment Press, Querencia Press, Scavengers Lit, Viridian Lit, Viridan Lit X, Not Ghosts But Spirits, Apple in the Dark, 100 Subtexts, NoNothing Magazine, On The High Literary Mag, Gypsophilia, God’s Cruel Joke and Apocalypse Confidential.

Dia mostly focuses on fiction, but she also writes poetry and memoir. She has recent creative non-fiction in Polyester, Cringe, Kinda Weird Magazine, Caustic Frolic, Outlander, Solstice Literary, In the Mood Magazine, Run Amok Books, Cowboy Jamboree’s Blue Bob Anthology, Dreams In Hiding Anthology, Dipity Literary, and Soft Star Magazine.

She has been operating Cream Scene Carnival since 2009.